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A steatite foundation tablet of unknown provenance — it probably came from Uruk — deals with the construction by Shulgi (the second king of the Ur III dynasty, who reigned ca. 2094–2047 BCE) of a temple to the goddess Ninsiʾana.

Ninsiʾana, a form of the goddess Inanna, appears in two aspects in Sumerian texts, one female (likely the planet Venu…